Word: lande
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those who go for high-tech hybrid teas with names like Chrysler Imperial-"a rose named after a car, for God's sake." What's different today, he observes, is that gardening has become such a fad. "You can pour vast sums of money into an acre of land and acquire the patina of sophisticated gardening very quickly." Horticultural social climbers speedily master the passwords. "There is a whole hierarchy of color," he says. "White flowers are considered the most prestigious because you have to be more sophisticated to appreciate white. Blue in a garden is almost as good...
...more deeply reverent animated musical from the Walt Disney Co. In retelling and retooling the 17th century encounter between the Powhatan princess and English Captain John Smith, the film takes the American Indians' self-image at face value. These are men of probity, women of dignity, curators of the land, weavers of white magic. Their standoff with the white man is one of eco-heroes vs. strip miners, defenders of an idyllic homeland against greedy invaders...
...working-class English sailors fighting the avaricious aristocrat, the Indian conservators over the white predators, the female spirit of conciliation over the male itch to resolve every dispute by going to war. Boldly eco-liberal, Pocahontas even pokes fun at the Disney Co.'s recent attempt to buy Virginia land and build a historical theme park, Disney's America, not far from Jamestown. "With all ya got in ya, boys,/ Dig up Virginia, boys!" sings Ratcliffe, as his toadying manservant sculpts exotic animal topiary of the sort found at every Disney park...
...cardboard placard of goodness, the film gives her an impish curiosity and willfulness. Because she also has a classical heroine's sense of quest, the picture's Pocahontas rises above stodgy old legend into the sky of myth; and there she soars, eagle-like, watching over the land and its contentious people. That's apt for a role model for any child, red or white. And it's perfect for a film romance that earns a place of honor among Disney's latter-day animated film stunners...
...this nation's history is as much a part of Shinnecock Hills as the diabolical rough. The club began to take shape in 1891 thanks to the money of William K. Vanderbilt and his wealthy friends, and the sweat equity of the Shinnecock Indians who once inhabited this land on the eastern end of Long Island. The original clubhouse-the original American golf clubhouse-still stands sentinel over the course, a tribute to the genius of architect Stanford White. J.P. Morgan regularly challenged the links, as did Andrew Mellon...